Scuderia AlphaTauri, or simply AlphaTauri, is an Italian Formula One racing team and

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. It is one of two Formula One constructors owned by Austrian beverage company

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, the other being Red Bull Racing. The constructor was rebranded for the

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from " Toro Rosso" to "AlphaTauri" in order to promote the AlphaTauri fashion brand. According to

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and Helmut Marko, Scuderia AlphaTauri is no longer the junior team but the sister team to Red Bull Racing.

Origins

In September 2019, Toro Rosso announced their intention to change their naming rights for the 2020 championship. It was announced on 1 December 2019 that the team had selected "AlphaTauri" as their new moniker to promote parent company Red Bull's fashion label of the same name by purchasing Toro Rosso's naming rights. Thus, they became ''Scuderia AlphaTauri'' and retired the ''Scuderia Toro Rosso'' moniker after fourteen years. The team's involvement in Formula One can be traced back to the 1985 season when they first competed as

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. The team has been owned by Red Bull GmbH since the 2006 season.

Racing history

2020

AlphaTauri had

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and Pierre Gasly drive for them in their debut season. The team remained with the Honda engine, being the team's engine partner since the season. Sérgio Sette Câmara, Sébastien Buemi, and Jüri Vips were signed as the team's test drivers. The team achieved its first podium finish and race victory under the AlphaTauri name at the

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, which also marked Pierre Gasly's first race victory and the first win for a French Formula One driver since Olivier Panis won the

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24 years prior. AlphaTauri ended the year in 7th place on 107 points, 75 for Gasly and 32 for Kvyat.

2021

For the 2021 season, AlphaTauri retained Gasly and signed Yuki Tsunoda to replace Kvyat. Gasly scored the team's first podium of the year by finishing in third place at the

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. Gasly also consolidated this by finishing 4th at the Dutch and Mexico City Grands Prix. Tsunoda's best finish was 4th place at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

2022

Both drivers have been retained for the 2022 season. AlphaTauri will be using the Red Bull-branded Honda engines due to the former's subsequent takeover of the Honda engine programme due to Honda exiting Formula One at the conclusion of the 2021 season.

2023

Nyck de Vries and Yuki Tsunoda are due to be the team's drivers for the

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, with Gasly moving to Alpine.

Complete Formula One results

( key) ;Notes: * – Driver did not finish the Grand Prix but was classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance. * – Half points awarded as less than 75% of the race distance was completed.

References

External links

* {{Red Bull Formula One entrants Red Bull sports teams Faenza Italian auto racing teams Italian racecar constructors 2020 establishments in Italy Auto racing teams established in 2020